MONETARISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monetarism mean? 

• MONETARISM (noun)
  The noun MONETARISM has 1 sense:

1. an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money

  Familiarity information: MONETARISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONETARISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("monetarism" is a kind of...):

economic theory ((economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods))

Derivation:

monetarist (an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money)